Day: 22 January 2024

Conservatives and Liberals chasing Italian votes: a big crowd at the meeting with Pierre Poilievre organized by Anna Roberts

TORONTO – Election campaign has actually already begun and both the Liberals and the Conservatives are working hard to win the crucial vote of the Italian community. But the participation of the two parties in the respective events is visibly different, as can be understood from the photos we publish above (left, Conservatives meeting; right, Liberals meeting). (more…)

International students in Canada, here the “squeeze”

TORONTO – Canada will reduce the number of international student permits by 35 per cent as part of “a temporary two-year cap on foreign enrollments,” Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced this morning. The cap will reduce the number of approved study permits in 2024 to 364,000, while the 2025 limit will be re-evaluated at the end of this year. Students enrolling in master’s and research doctorates will be exempt from the cap. “These are the bright people we need to retain instead,” Miller said, adding that doing so will allow them to decisively confront the institutions and “bad actors” who have to pay exorbitant tuition fees to international students. (more…)

CORRIERE CANADESE / Taglio dei fondi alla polizia, cittadini contrari

TORONTO – Oltre alla crisi abitativa, al caro vita e al problema dei senzatetto i residenti di Toronto ritengono che criminalità e sicurezza pubblica siano anche questioni importanti. È quanto emerge da un sondaggio condotto da Abacus Data per la Toronto Police Association su un campione di 1.500 torontini, che evidenzia una crescente preoccupazione del pubblico per la sicurezza e la criminalità, con un forte consenso sulla necessità di una maggiore presenza di polizia e di forze dell’ordine adeguatamente finanziate per affrontare questi problemi. Un residente su tre considera la criminalità uno dei tre principali problemi della città… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>